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Show THEN "WILLIE" LEFT HASTILY Remembered an Engagement After Learning Just Who the "Fresh Old Guy" Was. It wns nt a diince at the Waldorf-Astoria Waldorf-Astoria in New York, when some candles can-dles dripped and made quite a puddle of grease on the floor. A gentleman standing at the door immediately tool; out his knife and his handkerchief and began scraping up the congenled grease, when a very fresh young gentleman gen-tleman in our "set" tapped the gentleman gentle-man on the shoulder and said : "Say. old gentleman, you're interfering with our Paul Jones. Suppose you cut that out." "I wns afraid some of the young ladies la-dies might slip," courteously answered the "old gentleman." "Well, they won't," answered "Freshie." "Besides, you're not running run-ning the hotel.'- The "old gentleman" had gathered up nil the grease by this time and. giving no answer to the last remark, left the room. "Fresh old guy," continued "Willie" after the dance "that old man." , "Not exactly fresh, but careful of his guests; that's all," answered a friend. "His guests?" repeated "Willie." "Yes," answered the man ; "that happened hap-pened to be Mr. Boldt, the owner of the hotel." And then didn't "Willie" fade away! Young Ladies' Journal. |